On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 11:16 -0400, James Knott wrote: > > > In the over thirty years I've been using computers, I've only once > experienced a virus on my own computer. It was at work and I > accidentlally left an infected floppy in my drive when I booted the > computer. The IBMAV program I was using quickly found and removed it. > Other than that one instance, I've never seen an infected OS/2 system, > even though I used to do OS/2 and AV software support at IBM Canada. I > haven't had any problems with a Linux system. On the other hand, I've > seen many Windows computers so badly infected that the only recourse was > to wipe the disk clean and reinstall. At one company that I supported, > re-imaging was a common practice.
Reimaging is used by the local Jr College because infections there are more common than in a red light district. After a bout with a boot sector virus I do not upload files from any media save in Linux. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
